Site of the day: Internet Movie Car Database
I’ve never done a site of the day before, so it may as well be site of the year. Don’t expect a new website to be showcased every day. I think someone else already had that idea.
Remember back when the Internet was full of wondrous sites that captured the imagination and made us think, «wow, this World Wide Web thing is really great?» People came up with new ways of presenting and sorting and filtering content and therefore started putting new kinds of content up on the web. Today it seems like all there is on the Web are stores, news sites, and blogs. Sure, there’s a lot more going on, but some days it just doesn’t seem like it.
Well, it’s not a new siterather a new-to-me sitebut today I was made aware of a website that gave me that 1998 feeling all over again: The Internet Movie Car Database. Just as the Internet Movie Database became a reference for people wondering, «who was that actor?» IMCDB answers the question, «what kind of car was that?» And covers motorcycles, too (even though the link is to a bike that is mislabeled on the site.)
It’s specialty sites like this that really make me smile. Google indexes everything and anything it gets its hands onto and that is of course a useful thing but sometimes it’s difficult to contextualize what you’re looking for. «I saw a car in that movie with that actress who was in that other movie» sometimes just doesn’t cut it with Google. Not that a search like that would get you very far with any website or search engine, but when you limit context its easier to find the connections to the things you want to find.
So kudos to the folks at the Internet Movie Car Database. It took me six years to notice they were there but I’m glad to see that things like this still exist on the World Wide Web.
